Eduard Bøckmann

Eduard Bøckmann (8 March 1849 – 8 August 1927) was a Norwegian American ophthalmologist, physician and inventor.

degree on the thesis Om den ved Trigeminusanæsthesi forekommende Hornhindelidelses Væsen og Aarsager.

His was the first Norwegian doctoral thesis in medicine whose research had been conducted outside the proximity of the University of Kristiania.

[2] In 1897, the library of the Ramsey County Medical Society was established when Bøckmann donated the profits from his inventions.

The materials, which are written in both English and Norwegian, include correspondence, certificates and awards, photographs, clippings, and authored papers.

[2] Bøckmann died in 1927 after suffering a heart attack at the home of his son, Egil Boeckmann, in Dellwood, Minnesota.